Does any body know delphi?

[eltonjohn]

I see that a lot of people are advocating the use of Delphi as an application programmer language for engineers
Does any knows body knows it and could do a presentation on the advantages of this language .As well as the characateristics.

 

[XNOX_Rambo]

Re: Does any body know delphy?

Delphi is an evolved Object Pascal so it is an excellent platform to develop
robust applications without running into the inherent problems of C++.
Here is an overview: **broken link removed**

 

[Antharax]

Re: Does any body know delphy?

Delphi is probably a very good developped language with a pretty large userbase. It seems like a tweaked pascal to allow object oriented programming. It doesn't support few of the more powerfull features from C++ (Operator Overloading and Templates, which are very usefull to write generic code), but hey, java doesn't support those either in the current version.

http://www.derangedcoder.net/programming/general/comparingObjectOrientedFeatures.html
I think if i would have to choose a good high-level language, C# might be a good option (one pretty interesting thing the guys from ms created). Especially if they're gonna support templates in version 2.

I wouldn't recomment using delphi, but i've never used it so ...
I don't really get the actual place where it should fit in the complete picture (but probably someone will educate me ;-) )

• * C is good for embedded programming and close to hardware.
  * C++ is an "extension of C" to object oriented programming. It's easy to make mistakes but it's very powerfull when you use it correctly. It's also good for embedded programming (32-bit with enough RAM ;-) )
  * C# is a recent development to overcome the problems (easy errors) you have with C++ and expand it's object oriented use. Once they have templates, ... . When you have enough CPU it probably is one of the more interesting languages.
  * Java is a languaguage which is pretty portable. Interesting for BackOffice server software which is required to run on multiple platforms. But also for applets which can run on all kinds of hardware (GSM, ...)
  * Visual Basic is good for easy gui development.
  * Perhaps Delhi can be fit somewhere between Visual Basic and C++.

But most important! The language you know best is probably the best language to use.

Antharax

 

[snaider]

Re: Does any body know delphy?

Any good tutorial to begin with delphi